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Post by rgs318 on Dec 4, 2020 12:04:58 GMT -5
From your mouth to God's ear.
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Post by hc2020 on Dec 4, 2020 14:02:59 GMT -5
CT seems to think any resident who wants to be will be vaccinated by June. If that’s true, we should definitely have a regular school year in 2021-22, including Fall 2021 football. I hope that timetable proves accurate but my gut tells me that the government will probably screw up the distribution of the vaccine pretty significantly which will result in even further delays. As Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “The most frightening words ever uttered are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 4, 2020 15:18:38 GMT -5
When we do play on the Spring will we have a better chance of getting on TV as we are the only (or one of the few) football game around?
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Post by Tom on Dec 4, 2020 15:40:46 GMT -5
CT seems to think any resident who wants to be will be vaccinated by June. If that’s true, we should definitely have a regular school year in 2021-22, including Fall 2021 football. I hope that timetable proves accurate but my gut tells me that the government will probably screw up the distribution of the vaccine pretty significantly which will result in even further delays. As Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “The most frightening words ever uttered are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” For the sake of argument, let's assume these vaccines get approved in a couple of weeks as predicted. Take a month or so to take care of medical people and emergency responders and we're in mid January. If CT is correct and thinking normal people getting vaccinated by June, let's say that 5 months to mid-June (92's post said "by June" not "by the end of June" We're still 2 1/2 months from the start of the fall football season. Almost a 50 percent margin of error for CT's timeline. I'm predicting by Labor Day it will be business as usual Spring football is another story. Will probably come down to if by mid-March enough normal people are vaccinated that no one cares if infected, non symptomatic teenagers go around infecting people
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 4, 2020 16:14:09 GMT -5
When the Gipper said that, he had a big smile on his face as he was playing to his audience. BTW, you are probably too young to know this but the standard joke in the business world, long before Reagan made this joke and which he tweaked, was "I'm here from home office, and I'm here to help."
Say what you will about the government, but I have complete trust in the United States Army and our armed forces generally when it comes to logistics. Now, someone else might screw this up, but the Army won't.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 4, 2020 16:15:51 GMT -5
Another thing to consider: colleges will all but mandate vaccination as a condition of attendance. Anti-vaxxers and civil libertarians may complain, but that will be the price of admission (figuratively and literally) to be on a college campus next fall.
COVID doesn't go away of course, just like the mumps and measles don't go away. But vaccinations reduced the R-factor (spread) to where it is eminently treatable and does not bring society to a grinding halt.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 4, 2020 16:19:26 GMT -5
Is Remdisivir now the standard treatment?
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Post by Tom on Dec 4, 2020 16:47:08 GMT -5
Another thing to consider: colleges will all but mandate vaccination as a condition of attendance. Anti-vaxxers and civil libertarians may complain, but that will be the price of admission (figuratively and literally) to be on a college campus next fall. COVID doesn't go away of course, just like the mumps and measles don't go away. But vaccinations reduced the R-factor (spread) to where it is eminently treatable and does not bring society to a grinding halt. The world's safest airline has already said that vaccinations will be required to get on one of their planes
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 4, 2020 17:05:45 GMT -5
CT seems to think any resident who wants to be will be vaccinated by June. If that’s true, we should definitely have a regular school year in 2021-22, including Fall 2021 football. Fauci has very recently said that everyone who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated by June. He probably wasn't including minor children in that prediction, as they are only now starting trials of the messenger RNA vaccine on children. The logistics of distributing the vaccine was assigned to the Department of Defense months ago.
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Post by hcpride on Dec 4, 2020 17:33:10 GMT -5
It'd be nice if we planned for spring football the same way we are planning for the spring return of all students --- assume there is no vaccine.
I think many of us would at least like to see a spring football schedule published (with the obvious understanding that the usual postponements, cancellations and played games will occur).
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 4, 2020 17:47:42 GMT -5
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Dec 4, 2020 18:59:21 GMT -5
Dean - please consider a dedicated virus thread so every thread doesn't get polluted like this one. Thanks in advance.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 4, 2020 20:25:47 GMT -5
"Polluted?" If those of us who post on this topic are interested, why is that "pollution?" Games in the Spring and next year will, to a large extent, be contingent on what happens with the virus. This is not politics ands plays an important role in upcoming sp[oprtsnseasons. I hope you can find some tolerance of diversity in the way some approach this topic. Stay well.
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Post by Tom on Dec 4, 2020 20:55:51 GMT -5
COVID is polluting every aspect of life, but this is basically a thread about COVID. Saying what happens to Spring sports is to a large extent contingent on the virus is an understatement. In my opinion, the only things that are going to affect the current football plan are the government's, PL's, and school's reaction to the changing COVID situation.
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 4, 2020 21:09:04 GMT -5
The Dean shut down the other General Discussion category because we veered too deeply into politics (fun while it lasted) so I don't think he will open up a new category for just the virus. Discussing Covid's effect on HC sports feels appropriate to me.
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 4, 2020 21:45:21 GMT -5
Uh, the heading of this thread is: "Will HC play football in the Spring of 2021?"
Whether Holy Cross will play football in the spring is pretty much totally dependent on how Covid is handled so to not discuss Covid here would be an empty exercise. The fact that there was no traditional fall football was also totally a result of Covid.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Dec 4, 2020 22:47:43 GMT -5
Really? The virus wreaked havoc on the FB season? I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know...
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Post by purplehaze on Dec 7, 2020 14:44:12 GMT -5
From a poster on the Lafayette board: I'm told a decision on the possibility of spring football in the PL will come between now and Dec. 14.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 7, 2020 15:31:21 GMT -5
I pray it is a positive decision.
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Post by hc2020 on Dec 16, 2020 12:49:23 GMT -5
I have heard that the PL is expected to make a decision about a spring football season tomorrow. Assuming it is positive news, players could move onto campus to begin organized team activities as soon as January 4th.
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Post by hc2020 on Dec 16, 2020 12:58:26 GMT -5
Chesney has said before that he would like to have 2 weeks of team conditioning followed by a minimum of 4 full weeks of practices before any spring games are played.
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Post by dharry13 on Dec 16, 2020 13:33:34 GMT -5
I've also heard the schedule would be two games against Colgate, two games against Fordham, possibilty of a non conference game against a local team (e.g., Bryant/Merrimack), and then the PL championship game against Gtown/Bucknell/Laf/Lehigh division. With winner moving on to the playoffs.
If it were to get approved. Don't shoot the messenger but that's what I've been told.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 16, 2020 13:41:27 GMT -5
Well...at least SOME football is better than none! (IMHO)
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 16, 2020 15:55:32 GMT -5
While I did not hear that level of specificity, since you've opened the door a bit, I'm probably free to say that AD Blossom in the 1970/1971 Class Zoom call strongly hinted at something just like that when he said if spring football played it would probably look similar to the basketball schedule in that we'd play the same team more than once and not every other team in the conference and said future schedules (the spring, perhaps?) and conference affiliations could well be more regional as a result of lessons learned from COVID. To make clear, no indication we'd be leaving the PL anytime soon.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 16, 2020 16:08:29 GMT -5
Well...at least SOME football is better than none! (IMHO) I think we are going to play--and I will be delighted if we do play even a few games. I don't care if the schedules are unbalanced or unfair. I just want our guys to have a chance to play, and for me to have a chance to watch.
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